Cartoon Comix Allen. We’ve featured this manifestation several times before, notably in the thoughtful and lively work of Nathan Gelgud.
and, back in the 70’s, not forgetting Pat Ryan and Allen’s Chicago Trial Testimony in comic form
Keeping that tradition going, a shout-out to talented Sasha Velour‘s on-going graphic novel on Stonewall.[…]

“….exquisite mind cartoons that could be heard with eyes closed, the voice perfectly ordinary with the slight edge of extravagant conversational camp, a mind artifice not unnatural to hypnagogic revery, deceptive, till you hear the chasm landscapes and awkward universes created and[…]

“Hates dull teachers and Republicans,” , “May all of your 50 children be Democrats” – Yesterday an inscribed copy of Allen’s 1943 Paterson High School yearbook went up for auction (see here for a detailed earlier report)
The estimated value was $3,000-$5,000. It apparently didn’t meet that reserve price – too high?[…]

Allen Ginsberg and his life-long partner, Peter Orlovsky, New York City, 1977 – Photograph by Gordon Ball
The Beat Generation exhibit at the Pompidou Center draws to a close
with a number of specially-scheduled events – a colloquium and a series of films. Last chance to catch this extraordinary exhibit[…]